Mattias De Smet

Nov 05 2024

Orchestrate Fabric Data workloads with Airflow

by Mattias De Smet

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With so many different Fabric items to work with that allow you to move and transform data, it becomes essential to have a way to “arrange” all that movement of...

Aug 27 2024

Business Intelligence, Technology

PowerBI : refresh a PowerBI semantic model from a SQLAgent job step

by Mattias De Smet

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The data warehouse technologies and architectures are changing at ever faster pace. Many organisations still have a large investment in a full SQLServer stack to load their data warehouse, but...

Aug 20 2024

Business Intelligence, Technology

PowerBI : treating fields containing HTML tags

by Mattias De Smet

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Some source systems tend to store HTML code in their back-end database, so they can more easily render it in the web UI, and allow the end-user to provide some...

Aug 02 2024

Business Intelligence, Technology

PowerBI : bulk PDF generation

by Mattias De Smet

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Generating a PDF from a PowerBI report is simple, there is even a button for that. Or you can subscribe to one and it appears daily in your mailbox. The...

Jul 31 2024

Business Intelligence, Technology

Power BI : Desktop client errors

by Mattias De Smet

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When working with PowerBI Desktop, you can encounter various error messages, which usually put you on the right track explaining what you’re doing wrong. However, there is also another category...